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NVIDIA · 2 hours ago

Research Scientist, Human‑AI Perception and Interaction Research - PhD New College Grad 2026

Santa Clara, CA

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

$168K/yr - $264K/yr

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics and AI for over 25 years, seeking to redefine the future of computing. The Human Performance and Experience (HPX) team is looking for a passionate Research Scientist to advance AI in gaming and robotics by understanding human interaction and behavior.

AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Consumer ElectronicsFoundational AIGPUHardwareSoftwareVirtual Reality

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Propose, research, prototype and test innovative research ideas

Publish at top conferences and patent novel inventions

Collaborate with other research team members, external researchers, and mentor interns

Create working interactive demonstrations to showcase your research ideas

Participate in technology transfer with engineers around NVIDIA as ideas "graduate" from research to product

Qualification

Ph.D. in relevant fieldPublications in top-tier conferencesPythonAI frameworksExperience studying human behaviorsRustC++Multi-node training experienceDeep learning modelsApplying human behavior models

Required

Ph.D. or equivalent research experience in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Cognitive Science or related field

Excellent track record of publications in top-tier conferences (SIGGRAPH, CHI, HRI, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CoG, ETRA, etc.)

Experience with studying human behaviors in related application domains such as gaming, driving, interacting with robots, etc

Proficiency with Python, Rust, and/or C++

Experience with AI model training and evaluation frameworks, like PyTorch

Preferred

Demonstrated public portfolio (e.g. repositories, OSS contributions, notebooks, packages, or technical blog posts with code)

Experience with multi-node, multi-GPU training and inference workflows

Familiarity with and interest in modern deep learning models, including working with large-scale, multi-modal foundation models (such as recent LLMs, VLMs)

A track record of applying human behavior models to machine learning applications, or applying machine learning to understand or model human behavior

Benefits

Equity

Benefits

Company

NVIDIA

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NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics, HPC, and AI.

Founded in 1993

Santa Clara, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.nvidia.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$4.09B

Key Investors

ARPA-EARK Investment ManagementSoftBank Vision Fund

2023-05-09Grant· $5M

2022-08-09Post Ipo Equity· $65M

2021-02-18Post Ipo Equity

Leadership Team

Jensen Huang

Founder and CEO

Michael Kagan

Chief Technology Officer

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